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waytoomanybooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Murder, Racism, and Stalking
Minor: Blood and Kidnapping
ceallaighsbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naïvest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth-century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
“’But the Solar System!' I protested.
“’What the deuce is it to me?' he interrupted impatiently: you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a penny-worth of difference to me or to my work.”
“Sherlock Holmes sniffed sardonically. ‘Lecoq was a miserable bungler,' he said, in an angry voice; ‘he had only one thing to recommend him, and that was his energy. That book made me positively ill. The question was how to identify an unknown prisoner. I could have done it in twenty-four hours. Lecoq took six months or so. It might be made a text-book for detectives to teach them what to avoid.'
“I felt rather indignant at having two characters whom I had admired treated in this cavalier style. I walked over to the window, and stood looking out into the busy street. ‘This fellow may be very clever,' I said to myself, ‘but he is certainly very conceited.’”
“‘…I must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever came across: a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid. What's that little thing of Chopin's she plays so magnificently: Tra-la-ia-lira-lira-lay.’
“Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.”
- my Gothic Reading playlist on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5xGUBH3brLaVD0b0LvLBuV?si=e2N4gl5kRJe3Tt2d5ziwvQ&pi=u-pZR_MM5gSwCq)
Further Reading—
- the Hercule Poirot books by Agatha Christie (First book: THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES)
- & the Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot adaptations (which, imo, get what I love most about the books so right)
- THE NAME OF THE ROSE by Umberto Eco
- Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin stories: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842), & "The Purloined Letter" (1844)—TBR
- MONSIEUR LECOQ by Émile Gaboriau—TBR
- THE VALANCOURT BOOK OF VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES: Volume One, edited by Tara Moore
- THE VALANCOURT BOOK OF VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES: Volume Four, edited by Christopher Philippo
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Animal death, and Animal cruelty
alison98's review against another edition
Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty
pey333's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Kidnapping, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Animal death
queenkath32's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Murder, and Death
wextra's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Moderate: Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, and Animal death
tiiiger35's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
The story itself was quite dark, especially the 2nd half…and in the end I felt the man who was labelled as a criminal & murderer was rightly so getting the justice deserved, that the authorities wouldn’t provide.
I made my way through this book very quickly. Arthur Conan Doyle has such a wonderful style of storytelling & I find his writing style flows very easily.
Minor: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Animal death, and Murder
flowermel3's review against another edition
Moderate: Religious bigotry
Minor: Sexual harassment, War, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
thatchickengirl23's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Animal death
goodchivesonly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.5
Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Blood, Religious bigotry, Racism, and Death
Moderate: Terminal illness